John Toshack brushed aside all talk of his reign as Wales manager being under scrutiny after his young side had beaten Liechtenstein 2-0 in their final World Cup Group Four qualifier.

Seven defeats in 10 games this year had raised the pressure on Toshack but goals from David Vaughan and Aaron Ramsey - both netting their first senior strikes at international level - lifted the cloud that has been hanging over the squad since Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Finland in Helsinki.

Toshack said: "I don't know about my position being under scrutiny, if there was pressure it does not concern me.

"People pay money to have their opinions, but most managers will know what that is like.

"They will know, for example, what it is like to go away to a small team in the FA Cup. That is what this game in Vaduz was like for us, you know you just have to work harder."

Toshack, 60, and with two years of his newly-extended contract still to go, said: "I have been criticised in five different languages right across Europe. I can handle that.

"I have been fortunate over my career to have had success in other jobs. I have always had criticism, so long may it continue.

"I accept that I have not had a good 12 months. We have not pushed on from our win in Denmark - who have qualified well for the finals - last November.

"Progress has not been what I would have liked, mistakes have been made.

"I have not been as decisive in games as I would have liked. But the problems we have had make it difficult to do that at times.

"I'm relieved, but then I was relieved when we won in Azerbaijan too. But under the circumstances, this was a workmanlike performance.

"There was no doubt we deserved to win and it should have been a couple of goals more but 2-0 was the job done."

He added: "Finland only drew here in this group, and Russia just managed a 1-0 win. You see from that how difficult these type of games are against a side everyone expects you to beat.

"After 30 years I have seen a lot of things, and been under scrutiny a lot of times.

"I've taken a lot of criticism, but it does not worry me. But smaller sides do cause you problems, particularly if players think it will be easy.

"Any lack of quality, or any mistakes we made, we still had the right attitude and work rate.

"At half-time, as hard as we had worked, we still felt we had missed chances. So there is still concern until the second one goes in."